[pro] Learning Lisp the Bump Free Way

Stas Boukarev stassats at gmail.com
Fri Jan 21 12:09:39 UTC 2011


"Svante Carl v. Erichsen" <Svante.v.Erichsen at web.de> writes:

> Hi!
>
> I should call it string-conc, conc-string, or conc->string.  I should
> not expect from first sight that either, string+ or string*, would
> concatenate.  From those names, it also would seem surprising that
> they can take any sequences, not just strings, as arguments.
>
> I see the main merit of creating such a function of reduced generality
> in that you can pass it around as a simple #'string-conc instead of
> (lambda (&rest sequences) (apply #'concatenate 'string sequences)).
Scheme has string-append.

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With Best Regards, Stas.




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